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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Of the tried & true ingredients for large-scale musical melodrama, High, Wide and Handsome omits none, from folk dancing to the scene in which Sally, temporarily estranged from her husband, sings in a tent show. Produced by Arthur Hornblow in the magniloquent tradition of screen plays like Showboat and San...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

Captured at 18 by the Caughnawaga Indians, young Smith ran the gauntlet at Fort Duquesne. There he witnessed raiding parties returning with the scalps of General Braddock's massacred army, the slow burning alive of nine prisoners. Instead of killing Smith the Indians adopted him into their tribe, took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Jul. 26, 1937 | 7/26/1937 | See Source »

General Franco's headquarters declared that one Leftist force of 500 militia had been cut down to. 14 survivors and claimed Miaja's offensive was costing "astronomical losses." Miaja relaxed censorship to permit Madrid correspondents to cable human interest stories of the killing in action of three U...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Britain Holds the Baby? | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Near Hugo, Colo., when Farmer Hutchins went to bed one evening last week, three-inch green shoots covered his 50 acres, promising a 20,000-lb. yield of beans. At sundown the next day every single sprout had been devoured down to the ground, below the ground. The land was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hopper Horde | 7/19/1937 | See Source »

Leading Maine wormster is tall, shrill, husky Kenneth Ely Stoddard, 24, who began digging worms five years ago when he was broke and could get no other job. Now he employs 44 diggers and one packer at Boothbay harbor, supplies nearly half the total market. Because mud is a worm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Worms | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

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